A New York City stenographer allegedly began typing instead "I hate my job, I hate my job" repeatedly while he was supposed to be recording the trial dialogue of a high-profile criminal case.
Time reports that the stenographer, Daniel Kochanski, was fired, but he did a lot of damage before that. Apparently more than 30 transcripts were jeopardized by his single-minded hatred of his job.
According to the NY Post, Kochanski would normally simply type gibberish but on this one occasion, his notes became coherent, but just as useless.
“I never had a situation where a single court reporter was responsible for so much damage,” Claudia Trupp, of the Center for Appellate Litigation, said of Kochanski.
Kochanski, 43, was fired in March 2012 for misconduct. The NY Post reports that the Manhattan DA's office have arrested and tried to force Kochanski into helping them make sense of the nonsensical court documents.
While Kochanski's ex-wife asserts that the stress of the job pushed him over the edge, leading to his actions, he told the post that he had "never typed gibberish. I always did my job 100 percent. I was let go because of substance abuse."
There's no word on how Kochanski managed to compromise so many transcripts before he was finally let go.